Word: jargoneers
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...members of the original Class of 1921,293 are deceased, 343 are still living, and 20 are classified as "lost." "Lost," in University jargon, simply means that contact between an alumnus and the alumni office has, in one way or another, been terminated...
...family physician bucks the case to a psychosomaticist, who flounders in jargon. It takes a young Jesuit psychiatrist-priest, equally familiar with the uses of Librium and prayer, to understand that Regan suffers from old-fashioned possession by the devil. Sometimes known as Captain Howdy, he speaks through Regan's mouth, fills her room with his bad breath and levitates furniture. Lacking any of the stature of his medieval forms or any of the wit of his 19th and 20th century literary incarnations, this devil seems little more than a pathetic old pedophiliac clinging to the mere body...
...Gropius or I.M. Pei is eloquence; that of corporate architects like Edward Durell Stone is rhetoric; what Johansen now seeks is "a kind of slang ... I want my things to look brash and incisive and immediate. They should respond to what people actually need, the way slang and jargon respond to quick needs in communication...
...suggestion with skepticism and distrust; and it was unclear that Nixon had ever approved of the interval idea at all, that he was willing to sacrifice the Saigon regime in talks with Hanoi. In any event, the decent interval was transformed into what was known in White House jargon as "firebreak"; the United States would leave Vietnam in a show of military force, and only after Saigon had been sufficiently shored up so that it might survive on its own. With the "decent interval," the South Vietnamese would only have been given a year or two to last after...
...literary relationship was, Mizener quotes a letter from Conrad proposing to sell one of Ford's stories as his own. A newspaper syndicate had asked for a story, but Conrad had none ready. Could Ford spare one of his? "I'll put in a few of my jargon phrases," Conrad concludes, "and send...